Kyle Flemmer [photo credit: Dean
McClelland] is an author, editor, and publisher from Calgary. He founded The
Blasted Tree Publishing Company in 2014, a small press and community of
emerging Canadian artists, and is presently the Managing Editor at
filling Station Magazine. Kyle's most recent poetry chapbooks are Astral
Projection (above/ground press, 2017), Lunar Flag Assembly Kit (no
press, 2017), and PRAY/LEWD (The Blasted Tree, 2016).
How
does a poem begin?
A
poem begins as an itch or impulse that appears at some mental crossroads. For
me, the first step toward scratching that itch involves identifying which
specific lines of thinking are coming together. The poem is an attempt to
explain why using language; why am I at this crossroads? What brought me here? Until
I can answer that sufficiently (at least to myself), the itch doesn’t go away.
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